The Presidency has revealed how the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government is utilising Nigeria’s revenue for various projects across the country, describing it as a Renewed Hope strategic ...

Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words ...

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have an ambitious goal of cutting $1 trillion in federal spending by the end of the fiscal year in September. But DOGE's moves so far to ...

A chart compares daily cumulative federal spending by day in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, through March 26 of each year. Federal spending is higher this year than it was at this point in 2024.

Trump claims he has a "mandate" to slash budgets, but polls show Americans want more spending on education, health care, Social Security, infrastructure and anti-poverty efforts.

In the GDP report, government spending accounts for almost one-fifth of people’s personal income, which totaled more than $24.6 trillion last year.

USAID spending is down about 40%, to about $4.6 billion, from last year. Spending at the State Department – where DOGE says it has cut nearly $1 billion in grants and contracts – is also down ...

Efforts to cut government spending and eliminate waste are dwarfed by the rising costs of the social safety net programs and interest expenses. Listen to this article · 8:12 min Learn more.

Overall, the government spent about $710 billion between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, Treasury daily spending data shows, up from the roughly $630 billion during a comparable period last year.

About two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. government is spending “too little” on Social Security and education, according to a January AP-NORC poll. Another 6 in 10, roughly, say too little ...

A new poll shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs Republicans in Congress have focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pledged to “simplify” the federal government’s credit card program on Tuesday which cost taxpayers nearly $40 billion last year.